Startup Pushing Green Natural Gas Label Shakes Up Leadership, Strategy

  • Activists dispute role of certified gas in warming world
  • US regulators moving to tighten methane monitoring mandates

A Colorado startup that led a push to help companies market their natural gas as more environmentally friendly is shuffling leaders and shifting its business strategy amid questions about the role of so-called responsibly sourced gas.

Project Canary, the Denver-based company that had signed up customers including Chevron Corp. and Southwestern Energy Co., is now being led by co-CEOs Tim Romer and Will Foiles, according to a statement from a Project Canary spokesman. Longtime CEO Chris Romer left the post and became executive chairman of Project Canary’s board, the spokesman said.